Chapter 11: The End of CLT

          I learned Seminar in English Language Course. First, teacher assigned us to work in group and discussed about The End of CLT: a context approach language teaching by Stephen Bax.

          And here is the conclusion from Stephen Bax "As I said above, this proposal is not radically new. Good teachers everywhere pay attention to context; good training courses pay attention to context. However, the dominance of methodology in general, and CLT in particular, means that their attention to context is secondary, and often haphazard. Novice teachers, as we have seen, fight against context when they should be working with it. It is therefore time for the profession to place methodology and Communicative Language Teaching where they belong—in second place—and recognize that the learning context, including learner variables, is the key factor in successful language learning. How precisely we proceed thereafter will be for the profession to discuss and develop. But until we start on that process explicitly and deliberately, and admit that CLT needs to be deposed in favour of context, we will continue to sell our students short."

          I think this article show us both the strengths and weaknesses and how to apply to our teaching in the future. Moreover, it's clear that everything always has 2 sides as the double edged sword.